The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-20
RUSSIAN JETs IN PALESTINE
Experience. Of the Colony ut Akron.

From the HebreD Standard
! The successive failures that attended tho
experiments Of the planting Of Jewish agricul-
effect upon Baron Rothschild.. The demands
for subyentions we're ineessant and the sums ms
sshas E and ss aSs de sna
in Kussia The failure was Inscribed to the TACT
far were nntried men, people who never had any
Which, Il He e.
the editor of the Lebanon II cannot remember
h waS to to
qualified, and induce them to emigrate to Pal:
estine He did not find it very hard to find
the people. ana the burden q military service.
Which Rc %s fss
small town in Russia, colony Of jewish farm
ers existed upder the benz name Of pavl9yIa When
Russian GoSsrnmentr PareeIed out the land to
people willing to settle down as farmers on
BE They we're 70 bs e1empt from
ssss IF ssp been settled at
WERE July aceastomed to The hard %ork ah n
VOWED IN q Gutiyatiing the soil. After they had
left the women behind In order to realize as
beIdone in tRe greatest secrecy, else the Govern.
ment would have interiersd; The colonists
where they worked for wages, while their fam
es by
about six months. In the mean while Baron
Rothschild., receiving, unsatisfactory reports
the other Jewish Go9nsts I
sa land Mkvah sS sssss
10 III Id mi I'm tnr
bis PscaaSsY liz s5ersiors m s
Pavlovka men. and advised the Baron to
send the K%ssap back their
on Whose advice these people had been drawn
rS bs h dy their osssr his
from Par Paris st to pnrohase land Tor these peope
at any prise Ths had
consumniated. ,Flnnlly, a tract OF land in Mishor
was secured new G9iony was then founded
ment OF Akron established The climate was
by ty Tseks
water, which had 70 Be fetched from a village
leeehes. Not infrequently a hapless colonist
had had to be tied down with ropes and an Arab
which was done with a pan, Of iron, tongs:
very IKE for the lover OF
actively commenced and some Arab workmen
were hired to assist in breaking the soil.
Alter !.i,. 2 while houses were put up, and
from iussia. who could not. haS,weyer. do
much In this trying climate; There we're
about thirteen persons died during the first
year, There happened TO fall an ABUNDANCE Of
director soldA the product. and the colonists
obtained all they stood IN need Of. In the sec
worked on the cooperative plan was pareeiled
out among the families according to the num-
Der OF individuals, and from thirty to forty
acres were allotted to each. Asa protection
trees were planted in the first year, which
proved a great benefit. Then six more families
were admitted. In order to offer greater secur-
year was bad one. The entire harvest Of a
colonist, consisting OF wheat, barley, sesam.
and maize did not realize more than from SO
70 l6O francs; OF which u part had TO be applied
to the Turkish Government had to be paid in
money For the third year olive trees, vines.
cltron, almond, Ethrogim trees. were planted.
and cabbage, At that time the well had been
onists. They made erculoan efforts
In order to prove that Akron, the fourth
colony settled with people who had an exps-
Renee OF thirty-siX years OF farm work behind
them, was a success. They werc favored by
tor and great hopes wers indulged in. MIR.
Scheid visited the colony in the month of May,
and his delight w4s great. man Of middle
SIZED stature i walking the iields between the
him; The punches proved to contain from
receive thirty six fold for what he had put in
thirty scrss-hsif WITH " ssssm. maize, f barley.
and hall with wheat CHARLKs FLICK.